Template:Did you know nominations/Carowinds

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The result was: rejected by Theleekycauldron (talk) 02:14, 9 December 2021 (UTC)
without an adopter, there's no reason to continue this one

Carowinds

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... that Carowinds amusement park in Charlotte, North Carolina, was the first amusement park to sell Dippin' Dots ice cream? Source: Dippin' Dots ice cream page

Converted from a redirect by InternetScavenger89 (talk). Self-nominated at 17:48, 2 December 2021 (UTC).

Nominator has been blocked indefinitely, and in fact has not made a single edit to the nominated article (which isn't a problem per se, but in this case the nominator claimed to have converted the article from a redirect, which is demonstrably false). Additionally, Earwig's tool turned out a whopping 90.5% similarity with https://en.advisor.travel/poi/Carowinds-16188, although I don't know whether that site copied from Wikipedia or vice-versa. --Dylan620 (he/him · talk · edits) 04:14, 3 December 2021 (UTC)

@Dylan620: That website has the following notice: All textual information is provided under Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike. The licenses for media files are to be specified in each case separately. Even if the Wikipedia article copied from that page, it is not a violation since CC-BY-SA is compatible with Wikipedia, and attribution could be provided on the page. However, I am pretty sure it was the other way around. (Incidentally, this is a longstanding article that has been around since at least 2007, so deletion should not have been requested. I will request a refund shortly.) Epicgenius (talk) 02:19, 4 December 2021 (UTC)

@Epicgenius: Aye, and I am deeply embarrassed to admit that I didn't realize that about the page's licensing until after the article had already been deleted. I didn't request deletion, though; in fact, I was one of the first to rebuke the deleting admin on his talk page. Even right away I wanted to leave wiggle room for the prospect that the site in question had copied from Wikipedia; deletion hadn't even occurred yet by the time a gut feeling had sunk in that such was the case. --Dylan620 (he/him · talk · edits) 02:29, 4 December 2021 (UTC)

Dylan620, no worries. I don't blame you for the deletion, just thought it was strange that it was deleted so drastically. Your reason for rejecting the article is most likely correct though; as a page watcher, I don't recall this being improved to GA or 5x expanded recently. Epicgenius (talk) 02:34, 4 December 2021 (UTC)

@Epicgenius: Indeed it hadn't; I ran a DYKcheck on the article shortly before my review, which confirmed that 5x expansion had not occurred. --Dylan620 (he/him · talk · edits) 02:37, 4 December 2021 (UTC)